Distributed Secure Grid Infrastructure Group

Mary Thompson received her MS in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara and BS in Physics from Stanford University. Her research interests include new approaches to authentication and authorization for distributed resources and collaborative systems; and user-friendly infrastructure to enhance collaboration. She currently leads the LBNL effort in support of the National Fusion Collaboratory. She led the group that developed and maintains the Akenti Authorization System. She also maintains the ImgLib software that supports the Lab's photo archive. Mary has been at LBNL since 1995.

Abdelilah Essiari received his BS in Mathematics from Eureka College, Illinois and his MS in Computer Science from San Franciso State University. His research interests include PKI security architectures and authorization systems; novel ways to secure group communication with Diffie-Hellman based group keys; and ways to integrate different authentiation methods into a single secure communication system. Abdelilah is currently working on the Reliable and Secure Group Communication project and A Scalable and Secure Peer-to-Peer Information Sharing Tool. He was a major developer of the Akenti Authorization system. Abdelilah has been at LBNL since 1997.

Doug Olson received his PhD in Physics from UC Davis, his MS in Physics from University of Washington, and his BS in Physics from the University of Missouri,Columbia. Insert research interests here. Doug has been at LBNL since 1986

Wolfgang Hoschek received his PhD in Computer Science from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria and his MS from the University of Linz, Austria. Wolfang's research interests include Grid Computing, Peer-to-Peer Computing, Distributed Databases, Service Discovery, Web Services as well as Systems Architecture and Design. He is currently working on Firefish, a Peer-to-Peer Grid service infrastructure for access to dynamic data featuring ease-of-use, interoperability, scalability and performance, the Nux XOM XML library extension which provides W3C XQuery support. Another current project is Sea, a framework for a staged event architecture. Wolfgang has been at LBNL since 2003.